Impact of Value Education at an Adolescents age

We all fondly remember our childhood experiences and how we grew from the stage of a young child dependent on others to an adult who does so many things. Before entering to the stage of adulthood children enters the stage of adolescence. A child at an age of 14, is asked by his parents topay more attention to his studies and less to games as it is the foundation stage. He/she is called an adolescent. He/she is growing and growing very fast. But at the same time he/she is asked to behave like a child. A child is in a state where he cannot understand that whether he/she is an adult or a child. All of us undergo this stage which poses many challenges and is full of excitement. At the same time it demands adjustment on many fronts. Adolescence is a period of transition from childhood to adulthood. It is characterized by rapid physical, biological and hormonal changes resulting in to psychosocial, behavioral and sexual maturation between the age of 10-19 years in an individual. Adolescence is often described as a phase of life that begins in biology and ends in society it means that physical and biological changes are universal and take place due to maturation but the psychosocial and behavioral manifestation sare determined by the meaning given to these changes within a cultural system. The experience of adolescents during teen years would vary considerably according to the cultural and social values of the network of social identities they grow in. The period of Adolescence is filled with intellectual and emotional changes in addition to other major biological and physical changes. It is a time of discovery of self and one’s relationship to the world around himself or herself.